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Medicare for … me?

It’s official. I’m old. There have been some telltale signs in recent years: The gray hair, the bald spot, regularly scheduled naps, a daughter who turned 40, a granddaughter who turned 17, a fully stocked medicine cabinet, and the fact the golf ball no longer travels as far as it once did. Oh, and my wife may have pointed it out a couple of times in recent years when I kneeled down to pick up something and had trouble standing back up. “We’re getting older, Donnie,” she would matter-of-factly say. Of course, as my wife can legally document, I don’t…

Back in the classroom after all these years

One of the biggest questions about retirement is what to do with all of your time. Admittedly, it’s a nice problem to have. My wife retired a few months before I did. She has several hobbies to occupy her free time, whenever she gets it. She also started a business that allows her to work as much – or as little – as she wants, and she still oversees the household finances and fixes things that are broken. Me? I play golf. In the Midwest that primarily means April through October, weather permitting, with anything else a bonus. Aside from…